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SUMMARY:A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
DESCRIPTION:Sacramento Women's Book Club\n\nWe will be discussing A Long Wa
 y Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.  Please arrive between 6:
 30 and 7 so that you can browse and shop in the store - Time Tested has a l
 ot of great new and used books! - and get situated.  The meeting discussion
  will begin at 7.  \n\nReminder: Time Tested is happy to order a book for y
 ou if they don't have it on the shelves - and it's easy!  Just call or stop
  by... they put in orders on Tuesdays and it is often available that Thursd
 ay.  Be sure to let them know you are with the Sacramento Women's Book Club
 .\n\nBook synopsis:\nThis absorbing account by a young man who\, as a boy o
 f 12\, gets swept up in Sierra Leone's civil war goes beyond even the best 
 journalistic efforts in revealing the life and mind of a child abducted int
 o the horrors of warfare. Beah's harrowing journey transforms him overnight
  from a child enthralled by American hip-hop music and dance to an internal
  refugee bereft of family\, wandering from village to village in a country 
 grown deeply divided by the indiscriminate atrocities of unruly\, sociopath
 ic rebel and army forces. Beah then finds himself in the army—in a drug-fil
 led life of casual mass slaughter that lasts until he is 15\, when he's bro
 ught to a rehabilitation center sponsored by UNICEF and partnering NGOs. Th
 e process marks out Beah as a gifted spokesman for the center's work after 
 his "repatriation" to civilian life in the capital\, where he lives with hi
 s family and a distant uncle. When the war finally engulfs the capital\, it
  sends 17-year-old Beah fleeing again\, this time to the U.S.\, where he no
 w lives. (Beah graduated from Oberlin College in 2004.) Told in clear\, acc
 essible language by a young writer with a gifted literary voice\, this memo
 ir seems destined to become a classic firsthand account of war and the ongo
 ing plight of child soldiers in conflicts worldwide. - Publishers Weekly\n\
 n(The author will be appearing at UC Davis in their Distinguished Speakers 
 series on April 8th.)\n\nPlease bring a dish to share with the group (whate
 ver you like!) or let us know in your RSVP if you want to provide drinks.  
 Thanks!\n\nSacramento\, CA  95814 - USA\n\nWednesday\, March 11 at 6:30 PM\
 n\nPhoto: http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/7/a/2/event_362243
 4.jpeg\n\nAttending: 35\n\nFee: Price: USD 5.00 per person\n\nDetails: http
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